Re: Re: AMD thunderbird oops

[Luigi Genoni]

Have you considered to change your dimm at all?
If they are bugged they should be under warranty.

Luigi

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 [e-mail] wrote:

> Thanks,
>     I have a heat sink and it is huge about 2 inches, plus fan. Plus another 4" fan in the case. (real nice case).
>
>     I think it is the memory, as yesterday my gcc was bombing with 'internel compiler error', which is usually a good mem tester.  So I started setting mem=64m and things worked better and the install went all the way through.  I think I need to slow my drams down a bit or add some delay in the bios settings.
>
>    The oops says something like 'kernel null pointer at address 0x000000'.  How do I 'catch' the output of an oops when the filesystem goes and I get ext2fs errors and am forced to reboot and manually run e2fsck?
>
>     Lastly with the mem=64M or mem=128M when I do a make dep, I get an error message that says Error 'missing seperator'.  What does that mean?  It stops in the drivers/net dir when I get this message?
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> Alan Cox <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > I just upgradede my system to an 1200Mhz AMD Athlon Thundirbird (266Mhz FSB) processor  / 512Meg of RAM, and an Asus kt7a motherboard.  >
> > It is oppsing left and right.  I recompiled the kernel with Athelon as the CPU but keep getting these oopses..
> >
> > I also get these same problems while trying to install RH 7.1
> >
> > Anyone know is this a supported processor / MB and has anyone had these problems?
>
> Random oopses normally indicate faulty board cpu or ram (and the fault may
> even just be overheating or dimms not in the sockets cleanly). I doubt its
> the board design or model that is the problem, you probably jut have a faulty
> component somewhere if its oopsing randomly even during installs and stuff
>
> memtest86, and heatsink compound may be your best friends
>
>
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